Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.

Sometimes, something of someone is liked too much not because it holds too much value or has a true value, but because there are too many bidders and buyers to have the same thing at...

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

Don’t Copy What Someone Is Doing, Copy What God Wants You To Do.

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

Imitation is suicide

If a creative person steals your idea, he’s killing his creative ability, if he steals your art, he’s killing his art, if he makes it available to the world, it won,t create de impact you...

Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural.

A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been truly outstanding, so that, if he is not quite as skillful as they, at least...

I wish I am like someone else”, you are attempting to take alongside someone’s limitation you may not be able to manage.

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves...

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others’ posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others’ posts, write but never think and...

The ones that landed near the bathroom are Bad Tolkien imitations or transcripts of a D&D adventure; bad Herbert, Heinlein, and Asimov are below the television; and these on the bed are the ones whose...

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.

Imitation cannot go above its model.